Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:23:13 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dsa: tag_rtl4_a: Bump min packet size | From | Florian Fainelli <> |
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You would want your subject to be:
net: dsa: tag_rtl4_a: Bump min packet size
On 10/27/23 13:21, Linus Walleij wrote: > It was reported that the "LuCI" web UI was not working properly > with a device using the RTL8366RB switch. Disabling the egress > port tagging code made the switch work again, but this is not > a good solution as we want to be able to direct traffic to a > certain port. > > It turns out that sometimes, but not always, small packets are > dropped by the switch for no reason.
And we are positive that the Ethernet MAC is also properly padding frames before having them ingress the switch?
> > If we pad the ethernet frames to a minimum of ETH_FRAME_LEN + FCS > (1518 bytes) everything starts working fine.
That is quite unprecedented, either the switch is very bogus or there is something else we do not fully understand... -- Florian
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